I have at last, after several years’ experience, made up my mind that New York is a splendid desert – a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race.–Howard Yoon (after Mark Twain, Daily Alta California, June 5, 1867)

I have at last, after several years’ experience, made up my mind that New York is a splendid desert – a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race.–Howard Yoon (after Mark Twain, Daily Alta California, June 5, 1867)